Baroness Hollis of Heigham: The information requested is contained in the tables below.
	
		Adults in Britain likely to be covered by the Disability Discrimination Act
		
			  Millions 
			 Area of significant difficulty 
			 Mobility (moving about) 6.1 
			 Lift, carry, move everyday objects 5.9 
			 Manual dexterity (using hands for everyday tasks) 2.4 
			 Continence (bladder control) 1.2 
			 Communication (speak, listen, read, write) 1.3 
			 Memory, concentration, learning, understanding 1.7 
			 Understanding when in physical danger 0.4 
			 Other area of life 1.5 
		
	
	Source:
	Family Resources Survey 2002–03, Great Britain
	Note:
	1. The Family Resources Survey has a large sample size and response rate and therefore provides a robust estimate of those likely to be covered by the Disability Discrimination Act.
	2. As many disabled people have more than one impairment, figures will total more than 10 million.
	
		Parking Badges for disabled people issued in 2003
		
			Thousands 
			  All badges Badges on issue toindividuals Badgeson issue toinstitutions 
			 England 2,031 2,005 27 
			 Wales 205 203 2 
			 Scotland *217 205 3 
		
	
	Sources:
	Department for Transport Bulletin of Public Transport Statistics, Great Britain (2004 Edition); The National Assembly for Wales, Welsh Transport Statistics 2004; and Scottish Executive, Scottish Transport Statistics 2004
	Note:
	Figures in the "All badges Scotland" column include 10,000 cases where it is not known if issued to individuals or institutions.
	There are no reliable statistics on the number of people in Great Britain who normally use a wheelchair. However, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister estimates the number of people needing to use a wheelchair on some occasions in England as 542,000 for April 2003 to March 2004.

Lord Whitty: The number of badgers in Cornwall is not available. However, the badger population for GB as a whole in the mid-1990s was in the region of 300,000–400,000 1 .
	The number of cattle slaughtered 2 under TB control measures in Cornwall between 2001 and 2004 are detailed in the table below.
	
		
			 Year Cattle slaughtered  2 
			 2001 3 801 
			 2002 3 2,917 
			 2003 2,414 
			 2004 2,351 
		
	
	Notes:
	1 Source:
	The National Badger Survey, Wilson, Harris and McLaren, 1997
	2 TB reactors plus direct contacts. Data downloaded from the State Veterinary Service database on 18–19 January 2005 (2004 data downloaded on 8–9 February 2005). 2002–04 data provisional and subject to change as more data become available.
	3 In 2001, the TB testing and control programme was largely suspended due to the foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak. When testing resumed in 2002, resources were concentrated on herds with overdue TB tests which would have had a longer period in which to contract the disease. Also the proportion of high-risk herds tested immediately after the FMD outbreak was greater than that prior to the outbreak. As a result, data for 2001 and 2002 are not comparable with other years.
	It is not possible to predict accurately the numbers of cattle which will be slaughtered in Cornwall in 2005 and 2006, or the cost of doing so.